Country: USA
Year: 2010
Duration: 83'
littlerock Atsuko and her brother Rincaro are two Japanese students. They are going to Manzanar, California, a former WWII detention camp for Americans of Japanese descent. Their car breaks down on an inland road in California and they are forced to spend the night in a motel at the town of Littlerock. An improvised party in one of the rooms gives them a chance to come into contact with the local young people. Atsuko is delighted by the encounter and decides to prolong her stay. Even though she can’t speak a word of English, new friendships and a love story help her discover an apathetic and lazy America that hides rage and intolerance. “There is so much that we are unable to express through language, a space we fill with gestures of longing, looks, glances. It’s a space that Mike Ott has opened a window onto, letting us observe people who are looking to be loved.” (Anisse Gross)
Biography
film director
Mike Ott
Mike Ott (Valencia, CA, Usa, 1955) studied at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Film and Video. He has directed music videos for such bands as Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers and The Cave Singers. His first feature film, Analog Days, world premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2006. In 2008 he made the short film A. Effect, that was shown at various festivals such as Vienna International Film Festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival and South by Southwest Film Festival. He teaches filmmaking at College of the Canyons of Valencia, California.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Analog Days (2006), A. Effect (cm, 2008), Littlerock (2010)
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Mike Ott
soggetto/story
Mike Ott, Atsuko Okatsuka, Carl McLaughlin
fotografia/cinematography
Carl McLaughlin
montaggio/film editing
David Nordstrom
musica/music
The Cave Singers
suono/sound
Fred Thornton, Ron Salaises
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Atsuko Okatsuka (Atsuko Sakamoto), Cory Zacharia (Cory Lawler), Rincaro Sawamoto (Rincaro Sakamoto), Brett L. Tinnes (Jordan Doniel), Roberto Sanchez (Francisco), Matthew Fling (Garbo), Ryan Dillon (Brody Butler), Markiss McFadden (Marques Wright), Sean Neff (Sean Tippy)
produttori/producers
Fred Thornton, Laura Ragsdale, Sierra Leoni
produzione/production
Small Form Films
vendita all’estero/world sales
Frederick Fulton Henry Thornton
